Obama to allow oil drilling off VirginiaPresident will also reject some new sites planned in AlaskaBy PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociated Press Writer

updated 2 hours, 16 minutes agoWASHINGTON - In a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling, President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia's shorelines. At the same time, he is rejecting some new drilling sites that had been planned in Alaska.

Obama's plan offers few concessions to environmentalists, who have been strident in their opposition to more oil platforms off the nation's shores. Hinted at for months, the plan modifies a ban that for more than 20 years has limited drilling along coastal areas other than the Gulf of Mexico.

Obama was set to announce the new drilling policy Wednesday at Andrews air base in Maryland. White House officials pitched the changes as ways to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil and create jobs — both politically popular ideas — but the president's decisions also could help secure support for a climate change bill languishing in Congress.

Are you you really that clueless? Have you been anywhere near the California coast in your life? Here's a clue... there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of drilling platforms, many within site, of the California coast... Just in case you didn't already know (which, I suspect you didn't...) Idiot.

now, my friend...aye know that there is oil being drilled and coming from the gulf of mexico's cenazoic ocs province off the coast of louisiana...california is going to have to do better than the ventura and los angeles basins--go further off shore and tap it out...if we want to become energy independent...unless we want to continue wallowing in mid east oil...we are going to have to find more resources much more than what we have...like aye said...thy must try the coastline off of san francisco...

Are you you really that clueless? Have you been anywhere near the California coast in your life? Here's a clue... there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of drilling platforms, many within site, of the California coast... Just in case you didn't already know (which, I suspect you didn't...) Idiot.